Close To Slavery: Guestworker Programs In The United States
Author: The Southern Poverty Law Center
Date Published: 2007
Report that examines guestworker programs in the United States. This report is based on interviews with thousands of guestworkers, a review of the research on guestworker programs, scores of legal cases and the experiences of legal experts from around the country. The abuses described here are too common to blame on a few bad apples employers. They are the foreseeable outcomes of a system that treats foreign workers as commodities to be imported as needed without affording them adequate legal safeguards or the protections of the free market. The report contains recommendations on how to improve guestworkers programs as well.
Date Published: 2007
Report that examines guestworker programs in the United States. This report is based on interviews with thousands of guestworkers, a review of the research on guestworker programs, scores of legal cases and the experiences of legal experts from around the country. The abuses described here are too common to blame on a few bad apples employers. They are the foreseeable outcomes of a system that treats foreign workers as commodities to be imported as needed without affording them adequate legal safeguards or the protections of the free market. The report contains recommendations on how to improve guestworkers programs as well.
